Chantale Zuzi was born with albinism in Congo, lost her parents to violence, fled alone at 16, and rebuilt her life in the U.S. She rose from refugee camps to Wellesley graduate and activist. She proves resilience is not a slogan but survival. #RefugeeCanBe

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Nashville ruled that the Department of Justice’s criminal case against Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia may be a form of punishment against him for legally challenging his abrupt removal to an El Salvador megaprison earlier this year.

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

A study from the @danielkronauer.bsky.social lab has revealed a new form of olfaction gene regulation that may be broadly shared across insect species—opening up a new window into studying connections between genes and social behaviors. Read a Q&A with the scientists:

More of this please, we can no longer tolerate their blatant lies to the American people

🚨 Psychedelics in pregnancy - can a single dose reach the embryo and matter? Yes. In mice they hit embryonic CSF within minutes, activate choroid plexus→CSF axis, & shift cortical development with adult behavioral signatures. @lehtinenlab.bsky.social Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/13

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect

🪱New research from the Wang Lab shows how changes in a worm’s lysosomes promoting longevity are transferred to its offspring through the epigenome, revealing how epigenetic modifications that help organisms cope with environmental stress can be inherited. 🔗 www.janelia.org/news/leaving...

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways. I could write a whole article about this, but as one example: “To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…” No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

Tidepooling in Japan 🐚🦀

When will folks understand that this -> 👻 <- is not a ghost emoji. This is a Műller’s larvae emoji! Silly people 🙄. 👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 Műller’s larvae are a developmental stage of some flatworms (Platyhelminthes) from the order Polycladida. #marineplankton 🦑

The final version of our paper on how ants and possibly other insects use a crazy mechanism involving extensive transcriptional interference to regulate odorant receptor expression is now open access in my favorite journal, @currentbiology.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

New online! Biosynthesis and function of magnetic organelles in magnetotactic bacteria

Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts for photosynthesis and starvation resistance. Photo by Anik Grearson. #evolution #symbiosis. #cellbiology. @cellpress.bsky.social

New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Every trait we claim as uniquely human—tools, language, empathy—exists elsewhere. Our real singularity? Not intellect, but destruction. We are the one species evolution produced that is collapsing the living world. apple.news/A9qfsnro8T8W...

Do you see a white square? A new study, supported by our #OpenScope team, identified the key neural circuit and cell type involved with inferring details that don't exist in illusions like the one below. 🔗 alleninstitute.org/news/scienti... #OpenScienceWeek

This is absolutely and vehemently disgusting, this is literally eugenics, the cleansing of people seen as less than.. I fear for this country in ways that I have never before and I fear for what’s next

“If a new pandemic began today, mRNA vaccines are currently the only type of vaccine that could be developed quickly enough to disrupt its spread” www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/h...

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s... today in my Evolution class we will be discussing just how many undiscovered species there are. Scientists think there are as many uncharacterized vertebrates as there are characterized. Here's a new one - deep sea bumpy snail fish! 🧪🦑

The Boston Globe is also reporting that some Harvard NIH grants are being restored. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/10/m...

Put plainly, the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling means it's now perfectly legal for law enforcement to profile, search and ultimately kidnap non-white people. It's not just Los Angeles. Not just I.C.E. Not just Spanish-speaking people. The Court's holding applies widely. That's the whole point.

Excited to share our new paper! ✨Natural habitat and wild behaviors of the dwarf cuttlefish, Ascarosepion bandense✨ tinyurl.com/bdew5x3s Our first cuttlefish expedition - diving in the dark to observe our cuttlefish in the wild... Check out the paper & new expedition tool on Cuttlebase.org 🧠

State governments on the West Coast & in the Northeast are forming new health alliances in response to changes at the CDC under HHS Secretary RFJr. States are concerned that federal public health recommendations are no longer based on science & are taking matters into their own hands. 🧪#MedSky

David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s...

“Just when you think you’ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise.” https://scim.ag/47sVFyS

New research identifies Galectin-3 as a key regulator of neural development, establishing its contribution to brain growth. Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/46mJrGO

Ant reproduction is getting weirder and weirder. Here’s the latest: queens of a Mediterranean harvester ant mate with males from a different species and then lay eggs that clonally inherit those males’ genome. I.e., they lay eggs that develop into a different species. 🤯

I have an autoimmune condition that just decades ago was a death sentence. Now I just need a drug infusion every once in a while and I'm good to go! Thanks science! #sciencesavedme

What an incredible win for American freedom, democracy, and the pursuit of knowledge. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Dresden researchers @paveltomancak.bsky.social @bruvellu.bsky.social, Carl Modes, @cuencam15.bsky.social ‬ & colleagues published in @nature.com that a tissue fold in fruit fly embryos buffers mechanical stresses & may have evolved in response to mechanical forces. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.

Biology, what are you doing? Follow the rules. www.science.org/content/arti...

Check out our new paper on adopting a trait-based framework for protist diversity! We make the case for a unified protist trait database, how to build it, and how it could transform research on protist ecology and evolution. #protistsonsky

Underlying “Stay or Go” Choices  @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social @malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n...

Research detailing how nicotinic acetylcholine receptors—the main type of neurotransmitter receptor in the fly brain—change during development lays the groundwork for understanding the molecular composition, regulation & adaptability of these synapses➡️ https://hhmi.news/4mFMhMY

Another "gift" from climate change: The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the US: Chagas disease is likely endemic throughout the southern half of the country, researchers argue in a new paper. gizmodo.com/the-kissing-...

This cover illustration reimagines the monster first conjured in Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. On #FrankensteinDay, learn more about the story's lasting legacy on the scientific enterprise, which was investigated in a 2018 issue of Science: https://scim.ag/3UPzBH7

Good news! Thrilled to see that the notoriously dangerous intersection of Craigie St. & Somerville Ave is now going to be included in the ongoing "Elm-Beacon Connector project." voice.somervillema.gov/elm-beacon-c...

A nice piece about how exploring various species at the root of animals is getting us closer to partially understand how #animals may have evolved. Happy to have contributed a tiny part. PS: Im convinced that #microbial #eukaryotes, who are mainly #unicellular, still rule the earth #ProtistsOnSky

New molecular design absorbs 2 photons to store 2 positive and 2 negative charges 100 ns lifetime, 3 eV energy storage, and 37% quantum yield A step toward multi-electron photochemistry Mathis Brändlin and @bjoernpfund.bsky.social in @natchem.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper is out! We have studied the cute tiny Discocelia plataet sp. n. to obtain the first molecular data of the order Discocelida and clarify its cell structure. All this for a better understanding of the evolution of Cercozoa. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

What they are doing to NIH defies all logic and reason. This admin is needlessly, irreversibly destroying one of the greatest resources our country has ever built. A few quotes from yours' truly are in the video below. Thanks to @nytopinion.nytimes.com for covering www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

What great big eyes you have, Piazurus. - "All the better to see you with, my dear" the weevil replied. And what great long snout you have. - "All the better to.. drill into woody branches with" Piazurus is a small weevil with eyes so big they take up its entire head. So it can stare into your soul

The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share